John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, "If you are really, really stupid, then it's impossible for you to know you are really, really stupid." A quick search of the news ...
Mathematics
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The term "gain of function" is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts society at risk of an infectious disease outbreak for questionable gain. Some research on emerging viruses can result in variants that ...
Biotechnology
May 9, 2023
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A new study is underway to characterize risks for migratory birds as they travel north from Central and South America and from the Caribbean in the spring, and south in the fall.
Plants & Animals
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For a new study, a team of physicists recruited roughly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder to help answer one of the most enduring questions about the sun: How does the star's outermost atmosphere, ...
Astronomy
May 9, 2023
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Rotational or continuous grazing? Which system allows for more sustainable and profitable free-range livestock production?
Ecology
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Indian astronomers have carried out deep optical photometric observations of the Galactic open cluster Bochum 2 using the 1.3m Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT). Results of the observational campaign, published May ...
A recent study calculated new projections for mean sea level rise on the Finnish coast by 2100. In the worst-case scenario, the sea level in Helsinki would rise by more than half a meter.
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2023
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Led by Stefan Wilhelm, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, a team of researchers from the Gallogly College of Engineering at OU, OU Health Sciences ...
Bio & Medicine
May 9, 2023
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Researchers at FHAIVE (Finnish Hub for Development and Validation of Integrated Approaches), Tampere University, have discovered a new response mechanism specific to exposure to nanoparticles that is common to multiple species.
Bio & Medicine
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Making the dynamics of an excited molecule visible is only possible using computationally intensive simulations. Recently, a research team led by Sandra Luber from the University of Zurich has developed a method that speeds ...
Analytical Chemistry
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